There is a consideration behind Graham’s comments that is regretable for an American born into freedom.  It comes from a wing of the Republican elite that sees the illegal immigrant population as future voters.  They pander at every opportunity to the different social organizations like La Raza.  This pandering attitude is a recipe for disaster.  With the exception of Canada, our hemisphere is dominated by soft Socialist countries, all still Third World, that enable these organizations.  Our ideas are better and stronger than those of Socialist regimes in our world, because they are not bound to a social or ethinic class.  By pandering to the political and emotional sensibilities of people who do not know nor care about the American heritage, these RINOs are dooming our country to cease to exist as a beacon of liberty for the world.  Not all Latin Americans believe in Socialism, not all Latin Americans want to be taken care of by the government, and not all Latin Americans want to give the American franchise to illegal immigrants.   The great secret of our American Experiment is that it is the inner yearning of all people.  It is an idea that ignores experience or richness of history.  All people can enjoy it in their own country if they are exposed to its granduer and if their leaders give to them the engine of freedom.  Our young experiment cannot be allowed to be influenced by someone’s physical makeup or past history.  When we give the power to dispense justice, we must give it to people that will interpret the law, not empathize with either party.  If we allow such influence on our court, our experiment will fail.

The unpopular Republican Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, took shots at Rush’s weight in an attempt at a crude joke, nothing new for Ar-nuld.  Over the last month, former Gen. Colin Powell has taken time to bash Rush time and again, their feud goes back to the election, and even further back mentioned by Rush himself.   Both Arnold and Powell have walked away from the identity of the Republican party, and have whored themselves out to the dying media for short-term thrills.  In response, Arnold, we do not need a big tent, because the power of our ideas, when combined with the dignity of a courageous voice, moves the American people to feats of history.  To Powell, we all thought you had already left the party, we didn’t know you were still a Republican.  To the RINOs, go your own way, we stand with Rush.

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We want “a banner of bold colors—no pale pastels.”

Senator Spector has a long history of voting against his own party.  He votes with the Republican Party only 50% of the time.

Take a look at the issues that he considered his Party to be wrong or misguided on.  Spector actually considers the health concerns of the elderly to be a drag on the economy and our future.

Besides hoping grandma drops dead and relieves the taxpayer of such a burden, Senator Spector spends his time beating up Democrat prodigal son Joe Liberman while defending Nancy Peloski, the presiding Democrat on the lowest public supported Congress in US History.

Sen. Arlen Spector is recognized as a Liberal by Democrats.  Listen to Gov. Rendell mention trying to “recruit” Arlen to the Democrat side.

This is why the estimable Sen. Arlen Spector is the problem with the Republican Party and should be ousted as a Senator.   This is the problem with the David Brooks Establishment Party Heads. They allow Judas into the group after he has already betrayed us!

RINOList.org SUPER FACT:  Arlen Specter was appointed to the Warren Commission and was the instrumental figure behind the “Magic Bullet Theory”.  He does look alot like Cancer Man.  Strange coincedence?  You decide.

Immigration:

This is an ad that ran in response to Sen. Graham’s support of President Bush’s very unpopular Immigration Reform Bill.

This is the bill that effectively provided amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the country.  Sen. Graham throughly enjoyed the spot light this gave him with Senate big wigs John McCain and Ted Kennedy, fresh from his latest vacation at Chappaquiddick.  Sen. Graham did not feel bashful in his praise of Immigration Reform on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes program when he thought he was Statesman-like. Time in the spot light allowed him to nurture those political bonds with such groups as La Raza.  Let South Carolinans NEVER FORGET his thoughts on who was standing between the poor little illegals and their rightful place at the American Tit of freedom: those Bigots!

To be fair, lets hear the warm up to the big climax!

And the climax!

But hugs with Teddy did not last long as the poll numbers started to roll in.  The Southern Avenger does a great job in detailing the abrupt turn around in Sen. Graham’s statemanship.

This post is dedicated in Memoriam to those stalwart Senators who aided and abetted the Democrats in keeping President Bush from appointing his choice for judges to the bench.  Elections have consequences, but to these Republican-in-Name-Only Senators, their collegiate camaraderie is more important than the will of the people.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Sen. Mike Dewine (R-OH)

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)

Sen. John Warner (R-VA)

Lets explore the history of the Gang of 14. Not a rock group or punk band, the Gang of 14 was a “bipartisan” group of senators who aimed to stop the use of the “dreaded” Republican nuclear option during the Democrat filibuster of President Bush’s judicial nominations.  A 60 vote majority is needed to call for cloture on a filibuster by Senate Rules.  However, the “Nuclear Option” is an attempt by the President of the Senate to end a filibuster by only a majority.  Republicans at that time had a 55 vote majority which could have removed the filibuster and allowed each nominee an up or down vote according to the Constitution and to tradition. Senate tradition has been to give every nomination an up or down vote.  By filibustering, the Senate Democrats gave a new artificial threshold for the nomination process, a 60 vote majority instead of a simple majority.  The subsequent “bipartisan” counter offensive to the Republican Nuclear Option ended debate and only allowed certain nominees a vote, while refusing to “advise” the rest of the President’s choices.  This Gang of 14 changed the understanding of “advise” in the Constitution’s Provisions for the Executive Branch. Even more troubling is the language at the end of the official statement which supposes some quasi-permanent agreement to institutionalize this agreement for judicial nominations.  This is an incredibly unconstitutional and dangerous precedent in Senate rules.

FUN FACTS ON THE FILIBUSTER

The record for longest filibuster is held by the oldest person to serve in the Senate,Sen.J. Strom Thurmond (D-SC), and his filibuster clocks in at 24 hours and 18 minutes.  Sen. Thurmond was filibustering in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The corrupt, populist politician, Sen. Huey Long (D-LA), held the Senate floor once for 15 hours and 30 minutes on June 12, 1935, the second longest filibuster in Senate history.  He filibustered in order to “prevent his political enemies in Louisiana from obtaining lucrative NRA jobs”.  Sen. Huey Long was shot and killed a year later.

The arduous 57 day filibuster of the Civil rights Act of 1964 was broken by a cloture vote after a 14 hour and 13 minute filibuster by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV).  During the cloture vote, the clerk reached a slient Sen. Clair Engle (D-CA) who, suffering from brain cancer, lifted his arm to point to his eye signalling his aggrement.  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 later passed by a margin of 71 to 29 due in no small measure by the efforts of the miniority party, the Republicans.

It is relatively easy to spot a RINO, because they do not hold to a traditional conservative Republican value system.

A RINO will NOT hold to one or more of the following core Republican positions:

• Belief in individual person’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, whether man, woman, elderly, child or yet unborn.
• Defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; especially the right to keep and bear arms, and the right to practice the religion of ones own choosing.
• Protecting the rights of the family against illegitimate government intrusions.
• Standing for a strong national defense, and fulfilling our commitment to our veterans.
• Keeping our commitments to our allies, and opposing totalitarian regimes.
• Holding the Federal government to its legitimate constitutional functions.
• Opposing judicial activism, and oppressive taxation by congress, states and local governments.
• Defending the right to commerce, and the individual’s right to work.
• Sound environmental stewardship, and opposition to protectionism.
• An affordable private healthcare system that is accessible to all.
• Supporting individual state public education systems by keeping them local.
• Supporting local law enforcement, and defending our borders.

This is not an exclusive list, but does cover those general areas most usually forsaken by a RINO.